#ranged

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#amount #biggest #disorder #far #far less

I see myself at a certain age as not being able to play the kind of parts that would keep me stimulated, and I can't imagine my life ending professionally the moment that I've got to go to the plastic surgeon and have my face rearranged. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#age #being #certain #certain age #ending

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#constellations #head #his #into #made

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#objects #own #pictures #position #should

We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture. ↗

— Robin Williams

#burglars #furniture #gay #had #night

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. ↗

— Alan Watts

#badly #between #comparisons #constellations #into

I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children. ↗

— Diane von Furstenberg

#birthday #birthday party #children #excuses #got

The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#apparent #arranged #atomic #elements #exhibit

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#best #books #carefully #included #mature

At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London. ↗

— Jamie Muir

#art #art college #asked #bailey #band